OTP question to end all OTP questions: Who unconsciously holds their breath the first time they kiss, and who pulls back and says, “Breathe.”
#I actually can’t decide…#I would have said Chuckles does the kissing and Kathryn forgets to breathe#BUT..#I can totally see Janeway going all ‘fuck this I’m gonna do it’ and surprising the hell out of Chuckles#and he’s so excited he forgets to breathe
@fbismostunwanted1158, I heard someone shout your name loud and clear and twice!!!
He expects her to tell him tersely to get out, to turn away and wait for him to leave, to shut down, shut him out.
He finds himself paralyzed, unable to swallow to sate the ache in his throat (nevermind the one in his heart). He should not have said it, should not have crossed that line in the sand. The impulse was strong but the days or weeks or months of fallout will be worse.
He’s waist deep in self recrimination when she finally moves, suddenly her hands are at his shoulders. Why? She’s never resorted to physicality when angry… Just recrimination, withdrawal.
And then… And then her lips are suddenly on his, still chapped from her (latest) brush with death, scraping against his. This… It can’t be happening. He feels his world spinning as his mouth opens against hers, gives way to the pressure of her tongue.
“Breathe,” she commands, her tone breaking through the hazy of unreality even as the world continues to be increasingly hazy. His ears are ringing and he feels distance spiraling away from himself, the floor tipping away.
“Chakotay?”
The world snaps back into existence to Kathryn bending over him, concern all over her face. The standard issue carpet is rough against his hands where they lie beside him.
He reaches one hand out and she does not shy away, does not redirect it. Instead she presses her cheek into his touch.
“Breathing isn’t optional, you know.”
l was… Unprepared.“
He isn’t sure which is more unbelievable: that Kathryn Janeway kissed him instead of sending him away or that in a state of shock he forgot to breathe and fainted like some damsel in a badly written holonovel.
“I didn’t realize you were so fragile,” she shakes her head softly.
He cups the side of her face and gently guides it towards his own. This time, he remembers how to control his own mouth… well sort if he concedes, as Kathryn runs her tongue against his bottom lip, one hand in his hair and he finds himself letting out a noise of some kind, hard to tell which through the muffling effect of their contact.
“I recover quickly,” he promises.
sigh…..just….sigh 😍
JC Monday reblog
God Bless, @lodessa. How do you do it? Oy. ❤️
Wonderful @lodessa.
Ummmmmmmmmmm
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